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September 1

Only the curious will learn, only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The Quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Eugene S. Wilson

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt

I’ve known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. Wilson Mizner

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. Cha’n Master Mingjiao

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. Sir John Lubbock

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana

A little learning ia a dangerous thing – drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring, their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope

<!–[if !supportLists]–>An education isn’t how much you have commited to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. Anatol France

Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

That is what learning is. You sudennly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing

The wisest mind jas something yet to learn. George Santayana

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Eric Fromm

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man was ever wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. Fred Brooks

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams

The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. Don Herold

Bad times have a scientific value. These are ocassions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Richard David Bach

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. Gary Ryan Blair

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli

Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Sir Winston Churchill

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. David Hume

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